John has a point about the warranty. If you want that, you can get a 1U half-depth Supermicro from JNCS. They offer warranty support and are a reputable vendor, and you don't have to build it yourself.

I'm in the process of virtualizing and removing them, but we had a dozen or so Supermicro servers running fine for years.

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Supermicro is the answer. You can find all sorts of Supermicro motherboards and chassis on Newegg. There are 3rd-party sites that you can configure and order a Supermicro server prebuit. They also have 'backwards' chassis you can buy that have ports on the front.

At first it can seem confusing due to their extensive parts list, but if I remember correctly, any supermicro mobo can fit in any supermicro chassis. However, you can get a 'barebones' that has the chassis, motherboard, and CPU already built, making it easy to just add memory a hard drive, and additional NICs as necessary.

John has a point about the warranty. If you want that, you can get a 1U half-depth Supermicro from JNCS. They offer warranty support and are a reputable vendor, and you don't have to build it yourself.

I'm in the process of virtualizing and removing them, but we had a dozen or so Supermicro servers running fine for years.

John has a point about the warranty. If you want that, you can get a 1U half-depth Supermicro from JNCS. They offer warranty support and are a reputable vendor, and you don't have to build it yourself.

I'm in the process of virtualizing and removing them, but we had a dozen or so Supermicro servers running fine for years.

Rather than get too hung up on warranties and sla's, I'm building with consumer hardware and assuming that it will fail once a year.

I can keep a spare around and end up with more gusto.

If usage becomes critical rather than convenient, I can move to a formal server.